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India Has Gotten Hold Of A New Tea And It’s Purple In Colour

Nope, It’s NOT Artificial

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Imagine drinking a cup of purple coloured tea. As absurd as this may sound, there exists a thing called purple tea. Even though Kenya is considered to have the largest production of purple tea, the root of its origination is in Assam and this was revealed by the Tocklai Tea Research Institute in 2015. Despite the excitement around the introduction of a new tea in India (coz’ we’re all die-hard fans of chai), the cultivation of the purple tea plants did not kick-start until very recently.

As the harbinger of good news, we’re here to announce the arrival of purple tea in India, finally. Cultivated in the Donyi Polo tea estate of Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang District, about 1.25 Kg of purple tea was sold at a whopping price of INR 24,501 to Guwahati-based Dugar Consumer Products Pvt Ltd. The pricing may come as a shock to many but considering that it has a lot of medicinal properties, the value attached to it is justified.

Purple tea is rich in anthocyanins (thus, the purple colour) and is high in antioxidents which is said to improve sight and provide anti-cancer aid. It also contains lower catechins and caffeine, thereby, balancing the sugar levels and cholesterol in your body.

It will definitely take some time to reach pan India but if you really want to get hold of it, you will have to go all the way to Gujarat.